O.C.'s death row: 9-year-old stabbed 50 times

Feb. 14, 2011

Updated Aug. 21, 2013 1:17 p.m.

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Maria del Rosio "Rosie" Alfaro became the first woman sentenced to death in Orange County, when she was condemned for stabbing to death 9-year-old Autumn Wallace more than 50 times during a June 15, 1990 burglary in Anaheim to get money for drugs. FILE: THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

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Maria del Rosio "Rosie" Alfaro reacts as the jury is polled by her attorney in this April 8, 1992 file photo. FILE: MICHAEL GOULDING, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

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Maria del Rosio "Rosie" Alfaro, July 2002, became the first woman sentenced to death in Orange County, when she was condemned for stabbing to death 9-year-old Autumn Wallace more than 50 times during a June 15, 1990 burglary in Anaheim to get money for drugs. Autumn was home alone cutting out paper dolls when she heard a knock on the door and saw Alfaro, an acquaintance of her older sister's. In an interview years later, Alfaro said she had to kill Autumn because the girl knew who she was. Linda Wallace, Autumn's mother, found her daughter's body hours later in a pool of blood in the bathroom. Alfaro remains on death row as her case is being appealed in the federal court system. CA DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS; TEXT BY LARRY WELBORN, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER,

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Robert Clarence "T-Bone" Taylor, left Jan 1992, right June 2007, shot and killed Ryoko Hanano, an Anaheim woman, while stealing her husband's Corvette in July 1988. He answered a classified ad offering the classic car for sale, but instead of buying the mint-condition Corvette, Taylor and a crime partner pulled guns and ordered the Hananos into a bedroom, placed them between mattresses and started shooting. Ryoko Hanano was killed. Kazumi Hanano, her husband, was shot twice in the head and paralyzed from the neck down for life. The killers left the home in the Corvette. Taylor's case has been affirmed by the California Supreme Court. ANA VENEGAS, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER; CA DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS; TEXT BY LARRY WELBORN, THE REGISTE,

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The new lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. State prison officials conduct a media tour of their refurbished death chamber designed to meet legal requirements. The new facility cost $853,000 and the work was performed by the inmate ward labor program. ERIC RISBERG, AP

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In this photo taken Tuesday Sept. 21, 2010, the death chamber of the new lethal injection facility at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. ERIC RISBERG, AP

Maria del Rosio "Rosie" Alfaro became the first woman sentenced to death in Orange County, when she was condemned for stabbing to death 9-year-old Autumn Wallace more than 50 times during a June 15, 1990 burglary in Anaheim to get money for drugs.FILE: THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

The Orange County Register is publishing summaries of the 58 killers sentenced to death by Orange County judges, two per day during weekdays, from the oldest case to the newest. Here are Nos. 11 and 12:

1992

Maria del Rosio "Rosie" Alfaro became the first woman sentenced to death in Orange County when she was condemned for stabbing to death 9-year-old Autumn Wallace more than 50 times during a June 15, 1990, burglary in Anaheim to get money for drugs. Autumn was home alone cutting out paper dolls when she heard a knock on the door and saw Alfaro, an acquaintance of her older sister. In an interview years later, Alfaro said she felt she had to kill Autumn because the girl knew who she was. Linda Wallace, Autumn's mother, found her daughter's body hours later in a pool of blood in the bathroom. Alfaro remains on death row as her case is being appealed in the federal court system.

Robert Clarence "T-Bone" Taylor shot and killed Ryoko Hanano, an Anaheim woman, while stealing her husband's Corvette in July 1988 after he answered a classified ad offering the classic car for sale. But instead of buying the mint-condition Corvette, Taylor and a crime partner pulled guns and ordered the Hananos into a bedroom and started shooting. Ryoko Hanano was killed. Kazumi Hanano, her husband, was shot twice in the head and paralyzed from the neck down. The killers left the home in the Corvette. Taylor's case has been affirmed by the California Supreme Court.

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